BTT: Half
Before we get to the Booking Through Thursday fun, let me congratulate Lori London and Dawn M for winning copies of David Grant’s Rock Stars. I didn’t have a huge number of entries, which is sad. Where are all my hair band lovers? Or are you guys waiting for The Novel (Yeah, that’d be MY novel. The one about Trevor. That you’ll have soon.)
Okay, now onto the BTT fun. I’m going to paraphrase the question by saying it asked if we’d chuck a book halfway through, even after we’d invested all that time into it. I mean, halfway on some books is 500 pages. On others, it’s 75.
I had a professor in college who said life was too short to read bad books. (I had a friend in grad school who said it was rude to teach a bad course. As far as I’m concerned, this is the same thing.) No matter where you are when it goes sour, if you don’t want to keep reading, don’t.
If you could see my TBR mountain range in here, with its three different faces, you’d probably agree. If I struggle through every clunker, I’ll never get this puppy under control. Not to mention the negative impact bad writing has on my own work.
So… yeah. Chuck it. Fast. And don’t look back.
